Indie Apps & Games News

I’m a huge top down racing fan, from games such as Micro Machines to Supercars and Indy Heat on the Amiga. Well here’s another top down racing game you might like to try that was recently released on the Commodore… Continue Reading →

I said to myself I wasn’t going to feature any more Pac-Man games, especially as we’ve featured it so many times now with systems being mentioned such as the Atari 2600, Commodore Amiga, Intellivision and even the one that appeared… Continue Reading →

Thanks to another heads up from a good friend of ours, we’ve been told that Prototron and team, have released an updated build of the previously released enhanced version of the 1991 US GOLD published Beat ’em up of ‘Final… Continue Reading →

Thanks to a heads up by both XeNoMoRPH and Juan J. Martínez (Reidrac), we’ve been told that if you head on over to the link provided below, you can check out Reidrac’s high quality action platformer for the Amstrad CPC, called ‘The… Continue Reading →

In 1986 Sega released one of the greatest racers of our time, it just had to be Out Run. An Arcade racer designed by Yu Suzuki, that was not only a commercial success, but became one of the best selling… Continue Reading →

Commodore owners are going to love this news story that we’ve just come across on Facebook. As if you remember playing and hopefully enjoying the 1980’s Arcade game of Wizard of Wor, which also appeared on the Atari 8-bit, Atari… Continue Reading →

I thought it would be best to give another shout out for this addictive yet simplistic little game called ‘King and Balloon’ by RMJ & JoeJoe. A 1:1 arcade port of Namco’s 1980 game for the Commodore Amiga, which was… Continue Reading →

As a Kid I used to love watching the 1980s TV show Knightmare, a show in which children had to not only guide a friend wearing a "Helmet of Justice" – a headpiece that blocks their field of vision. But… Continue Reading →

Something different for today on Indie Retro News, as looking through the CSdb site for something interesting to write up, and we’ve come across rather cool looking adventure horror game called ‘Broken Mirror’ by Tommie Hansmar with music by 4Gente… Continue Reading →

Something different for today on Indie Retro News, as looking through the CSdb site for something interesting to write up, and we’ve come across rather cool looking adventure horror game called ‘Broken Mirror’ by Tommie Hansmar with music by 4Gente… Continue Reading →

Although I was late with this news ( I have bad back ), I thought it worth mentioning Rodrigo Siqueira’s latest MSX based platformer of ‘ AlienMSX ‘ which was entered into the MSXdev24 competition. A game that tasks players with… Continue Reading →

Arcade Shooters we just love ’em! From Galaga to 1942, to Xenon and even Swiv. But there’s one Shoot ’em up that caught our eye this month, and that’s the latest release of ‘ Galastrad ‘ for the Amstrad CPC… Continue Reading →

This week we’ve been swamped with news, and as I’m now overwhelmed and need a writers break, I thought it would be best to give a final shout out for this addictive yet simplistic little game called ‘King and Balloon’… Continue Reading →

The awesome news just keeps on coming! As we’ve recently been contacted by a good friend of ours through Facebook, that the brilliant Arcade game of ‘Mikie’ by Konami, with 8bit versions by Imagine. Has been ported over the Atari… Continue Reading →

When it comes to the MSXdev competition, you are guaranteed at least one very decent game, that I’d recommend to anyone who was looking into getting into the MSXdev scene. Case and point being Lilly’s Saga, which was an MSXdev22 winner… Continue Reading →

Sometime ago we featured a game called Manic Jet Set Willy, a Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy mash up for the ZX Spectrum by Norman Sword. Well fast forward to today and yet another Jet Set Willy mash up… Continue Reading →

In 1984 Dennis Caswell and published by Epyx released Impossible Mission on the C64. It was and still is an awesome game that had a variety of genres included such as platforming, adventuring and action. Oh and it also had… Continue Reading →

Pixelbrei Games with publishing by Bitmap Soft has finally released the eagerly awaited ‘Timo’s Castle’ for the C64! As in the words of the website "In a nostalgic homage to the golden era of gaming, a team of passionate developers… Continue Reading →

Amstrad CPC Plus and GX4000 owners might like this latest news story that’s just been sent to us by AngelSanchezTWI through Twitter, as if you’re looking for a new(ish) game to play right now, then it might be worth checking out SyX… Continue Reading →

We’ve featured the 1983 game of ‘Tapper’ a number of times now, as not only did it appear as a brilliant Arcade to Amiga conversion by Old_Bob, but it also appeared on the ZX Spectrum as a tapper clone by the… Continue Reading →

It’s not often we get new racing games for the Commodore Vic-20, but searching through the itch io website earlier today, we’ve found out that Huffelduff has released the Commodore Vic-20 game of ‘Formula V20 1985’. A new game in… Continue Reading →